drawing-room car

Example Sentences

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Quite luckily there was a drawing-room car attached to the train, although such luxury is generally confined to the express, which does not stop here.

From The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua by Cleveland, Cecilia Pauline

After lunch we returned to our drawing-room car.

From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor

There was no berth to be had for her and no drawing-room car on, so we rode all night in the day coach with a rather mixed lot.

From Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Williams, J. Scott (John Scott)

We learn that the company have put a new engine on the seven o'clock train, and newly upholstered the drawing-room car throughout.

From The Gilded Age, Part 4. by Warner, Charles Dudley

As the drawing-room car was just clearing the station, Miss Montague held a piece of paper out of the window, which Charles caught eagerly and placed in his pocket-book.

From The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician by Fuhrer, Charlotte